For Wanda Mata, the news Friday that Gov. Tom Wolf had halted executions under Pennsylvania's death penalty brought a new flood of pain over her brother's murder.
Only three weeks ago, the birth of Carlos Juarbe's first grandchild forced Mata to again...

In the wake of lawsuits filed against several Pennsylvania cities, Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski is moving forward with plans to repeal a city gun law in hopes of avoiding a similar battle.
The repeal, being introduced to Allentown City Council this...

After a Lehigh County grand jury investigation, Bethlehem police have charged a man who worked as a nurse at a rehabilitation center with sexually assaulting a "non-verbal" patient.
Robert Poindexter, 45, of 25 Congress Court in Quakertown, was...

Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski has called for the repeal of a local gun law that could open up the city to a costly lawsuit, thanks to a move by the state Legislature.
In the final minutes of the legislative session Monday, lawmakers approved a bill that...

Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka had just walked into his Whitehall hotel room, where a beautiful young woman lay in his bed.
It wasn't unusual for Snuka, a married man, to spend the night with his girlfriend, Nancy Argentino. But on this night, after the budding wrestling superstar had returned from a series of World Wrestling Federation TV tapings at the Allentown Fairgrounds, something was amiss.
Argentino was gasping for air. Yellow fluid oozed from her mouth and nose.
Snuka grabbed the room phone and...

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Wednesday that she hopes to avoid a "violent exchange" with Occupy Baltimore protesters, though she and other city officials declined to say when or if they would forcibly remove the activists.
Tensions mounted at the Occupy Baltimore encampment in the Inner Harbor's McKeldin Square, with protesters fearing imminent arrest, as civil rights advocates and union leaders came to their defense.
The American Civil Liberties Union questioned City Hall's...

In five years, Melissa T. Benvegno of Allentown sees herself as a juvenile probation officer or even a federal border patrol agent.
Not long ago, those dreams would have been next to impossible for her, given two shoplifting convictions she had in her teens and 20s that would come up every time she applied for a job.
Now 35, Benvegno says she's a different person from the girl who grew up without stable parents and spent time in foster care as a result. She's gotten an associate degree in criminal...

During last year's campaign, Republicans Dan Webster and Sandy Adams of Orlando were the beneficiary of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of media — mostly TV ads — paid for by the 60-Plus Association, which bills itself as a conservative alte

Good Morning, Fellow Seekers. It's the second Tuesday in November in an odd-numbered year, and that can only mean one thing: an election so sleepily boring that roughly only 20 percent of you will turn out at the polls today....

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